Did you miss the Interaction 13 Conference, in Toronto this past February? Join IxDA Pittsburgh for our annual Conference Redux event, hosted at bar & concert venue the Brillobox, in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Meet at the 1st-floor bar for a drink, then head to the 2nd floor to watch recorded presentations from the conference. We may even have an added surprise or two that we'll announce soon. And keep an eye out for a Facebook poll to help us choose the videos we'll show!

The Digital Life Podcast, produced by Involution Studios has released their most recent episode, a discussion with Suzanne El-Moursi (chair of IxD13) and Alok Nandi (chair of IxD14) about the recent conferece in Toronto and the upcoming conference in Amsterdam next year.

Thanks to everyone for submitting your videos for this year's Student Design Challenge - to develop a vision of “Playful Technology” - made possible with the support of Interaction and Experience Research (IXR) at Intel Labs.

We've received 48 entries in response to this year's brief. Your entries came from countries including United States, Colombia, Israel, Denmark, Italy, India, Australia, Canada, Switzerland and Malaysia.

I am pleased to formally open the Call for Proposals for North American cities interested in hosting the Interaction|13 conference - the annual conference of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) - to be held in February 2013.